Headlight control for automobiles.



H'. W. POTTS. eEADmeH-r comme Poe AUTOMOBILES,

APPLICATION FILED 1-IAR.28, 1913. gg?" Patented Sept. 30,1913.

H. W. POTTS. HEAOLIOHT OONTROL POO AUTOMOBILES. APPLIOATION FILED MAR.28, 1913. j 1,0??4857. Patented Sept. 30, 1913 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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turned in the not of steering the machine, the elbow levers will be given n correspond* ing movement, and a proportionate amount of movement. will loe importen to the lli-mp Shafts 8, and consequently to the brackets 7 end the lamps carried thereby, the irnis of the several levers beingso proportioned :is to their length that the lumps will be turned to iingles corresponding to the angles to 'which ei-eeringh wheels are tuinecl. This causes the rays of light to be projected lor- Wnrdly in lines parallel. to the lines assumed loy the steering Wheels; and the portion of tlie reeziwejy' about to be traveled by the mal eliine is thus illuminated Wlmt is claimed is:

The Combination with the steering lmuo idee of? an automobile or similar vehicle, of elbow levers having their axes of movement coincident with. the axes oi the steering knuclles, one :um of each lover being delected and extended in the Seme direction :is the knuckle arm, means for securing said arm of the elbow lever to the adjacent knuckle arm, lamp shafts journailed to turn on vertical axes, elbow levers fast on said lamp shafts, :i connecting rod coupling the lastniuned elbow levers together for simulteneons und equal movement, and links extend ing in a fore and aft direction and connecting theA remaining arms of the two sets of elbow levers so as to admit of the relative up and down motion of the steering wheel axle and frame of the machine.

ln testimony whereof I aiix my signature 35 in presence of witnesses.

HARVEY NV. POTTS.

Witnesses l?. P. SECOR, GRAY Snooe, EDWARD Po'rrs. 

